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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 8
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Bildad asks: Doth God pervert judgment?  He says: Our days upon earth are a shadow; and, God will not cast away a perfect man.
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Then</span> answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
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How long wilt thou speak these <i>things?</i>  and <i>how long shall</i> the words of thy mouth <i>be like</i> a strong wind?
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Doth God pervert <sup>a</sup><a href="job/8/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 12: 15.">judgment</a>?  or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
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If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
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If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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If thou <i>wert</i> pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
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For enquire, I pray thee, of the former <sup>a</sup><a href="job/8/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB generations.">age</a>, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
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(For we <i>are but of</i> yesterday, and know nothing, because our <sup>a</sup><a href="job/8/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 7: 6.">days</a> upon earth <i>are</i> a shadow:)
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Shall not they teach thee, <i>and</i> tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
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Can the rush grow up without mire?  can the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/8/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR reeds.">flag</a> grow without water?
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Whilst it <i>is</i> yet in his greenness, <i>and</i> not cut down, it withereth before any <i>other</i> herb.
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So <i>are</i> the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
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Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust <i>shall be</i> a spider’s web.
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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
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He <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/8/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB moist; i.e. thrives.">green</a> before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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His roots are wrapped about the heap, <i>and</i> seeth the place of stones.
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If he destroy him from his place, then <i>it</i> shall deny him, <i>saying,</i> I have not seen thee.
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Behold, this <i>is</i> the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
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Behold, God will not cast away a perfect <i>man, </i>neither will he help the evil doers:
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Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
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They that hate thee shall be clothed with <sup>a</sup><a href="job/8/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shame</a>; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
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